At what point is my friend's job in danger?

[YeOldeTrout]

Friend has missed weeks of work/year due to mental health issues (mostly anxiety), for last 3 years. I am worried that her job is at risk. She works for local authority, "permanent" post. I think might be 4-8 weeks/each yr.

The anxiety is due to a failing marriage. She gets sick notes & so on each time signed off for 2 weeks at a time. All official. Am I right to be worried for my friend's job? She seems worried about everything else, but never the security of her job.

just me then?

It is worrying, but if she's been there for a while and as it's a local authority job, they're normally pretty good about it. Have they given any indication that her job might be at risk?

I think Hugo is right.
I feel frustrated that friend is expending so much energy on this git stbxH, basically. She could lose so many other good things if she's not careful.

She'll be managed out eventually or made redundant and to be honest I can't blame them. At the end of the day she's paid to do a job and her anxiety is caused by her home life. It creates unreasonable pressure on colleagues to have to pick up her work in her absence - they won't be able to find cover for absences a couple of weeks at a time

We all have stresses in life if we all took time off because it made us anxious no body would be a work

well.. it's happened. Friend is being managed out.
It's not even near the top of her mental list of difficult life problems right now.

Sounds like her employer have a "try not to make you" redundant scheme, but I have low hopes about that being effective when we all know massive public sector cutbacks could be coming.
I think she's in denial.

I know life dumped a lot of unfair things on her, but I'm frustrated & thinking I need to distance a bit. She's still obsessed with the ex, and to my mind looking for ways to punish him. It's all so naive about what can realistically happen in a divorce.

It’s also happening to a male friend of mine who is in the middle of a divorce. He’s getting panic attacks at the smallest things and getting signed off for stress constantly. His job isn’t stressful. It’s the divorce and worry about his children.

Unfortunately this also happened to me. I'd been working in my NHS trust for 15 years and had a very good sickness record even with MH problems and physical disability, I hardly ever went off sick until my ex husband started making my life a misery
I was so wretched I did lose my job, then during the actual divorce two further private jobs because I just wasn't coping.
But now the exH has gone, I've moved to another part of the country away from all of the memories and started a new job in the NHS here. The job is going very well, but my MH issues are ongoing not something that is easily curable but I make an absolute point of my job coming first. Getting up and going in gives focus to my day.
And my goodness getting rid of the ex was the best thing ever, I've never felt that wretched and miserable on my own.